Improvement in fluting-machines



J'. BROUGHTON. FLUTI'NG-MA'CHI'NE! Patented Jam 1,1876.

WWII/MA ltPETERS, PMOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D. C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BROUGHTON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ARTHUR H. LOWERRE 'AND THEODORE M. TUCKER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN F LUTING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Iietters Patent No. 171,71 8, dated January 4, 1876 application filed April 27, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN BROUGHTON, of the city of Brooklyn, State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Flirting- Machines, of which the following is a specification:

'The improvements relate, principally, to the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts of a fluting-machine, the object-being to simplify and cheapen its construction. This object I attain by placing the axle of the rolls horizontally in a plane parallel with the base or table of the machine, by which I am enabled to dispense with all devices for operating the press-roll from above, and can therefore pivot the carrying-arm with its bearings for the roller to the base of the machine. I introduce a deflector, which prevents the fabric from coming in contact with the base of the machine, and which is connected with the pivoted support of the pressroll, or which can be made an integral part of the base of the machine.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is the front of the machine, with the deflector connected with the pivoted arm. Fig. 2 is an end section at the dotted line in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a back view of the machine. Fig. 5 is an end view, showing the detachable bearing for inserting or removing the roll from the stationary post at the handle end of the machine. Fig. 7 is the pivoted side arm for carrying the press-roll, shown without the deflector connected thereto. Fig. 9 is an end view of the side arm with the detachable bearing for the press-roller fast thereto, and Fig. 8 is an end view of the detachable bearing.

The deflector is shown attached to the machine in the front view, Fig. 1, and in the end section, Fig. 2. A is the deflector; B, the side arm; 0, the pivots; d, the studs on the base of the machine, and e the lower bar of the side arm. A stud, f, attached to the lower bar 6 of the side arm B receives pressure on its lower end from the spring 9 in the interior of the base-plate, the tension being adjusted by the thumbscrew h. For separating the rolls to introduce the fabric, or for other purposes, a lever, i, thefulcrum of which is on the head end of the screw that confines the detachable bearing j to the stationary post is, impinges against an inclined bar attached to the vibratory post lof the side arm B, when the deflector A is dispensed with, or to the deflector, when one is attached to the side arm B.

What I claim as my improvement is- 1. The side arm B, studs d, pivots 0, and lower bar 6, constructed and arranged substantially as described, and combined with the base-plate of a fluting-machine, as and for the purpose specified and shown.

2. The stud f, spring 9, thumb-screw h, lever i, in combination with a tinting-machine having the axes of the rolls horizontal and in a plane parallel with the base-plate of the machine, as and. for the purpose set forth.

3. The deflector A, either detachable or forming part of the base of the machine, in combination with a tinting-machine having the axes of its rolls horizontal and in a plane parallel with the base of the fluting-machine.

JOHN BROUGHTON. Witnesses:

W. M. Goonnve, D. H. CRAWFORD. 

